About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Friday, November 24, 2006

November 24......

November 24 is the 328th day of the year (329th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 37 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 380 - Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

● 642 - Theodore succeeds John IV as Pope.

● 1190 - Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.

● 1615 - French King Louis XIII married Ann of Austria. They were both 14 years old.

● 1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus (November 24 in the Julian calendar, or December 4 in the Gregorian calendar).

● 1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

● 1703 - In Philadelphia, German_born pastor and hymnwriter Justus Falckner, 31, became the first Lutheran clergyman to be ordained in America.

● 1713 - Birth of Father Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary to western America. From 1769, he established 9 of the first 21 Franciscan missions founded along the Pacific coast, and baptized some 6,000 Indians before his death in 1784.

● 1784 - Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, was born in Orange County, Va.

● 1807 - Thayendanegea, aka Joseph Brant, died. Brant led Mohawk Indians who fought against the Americans in the Revolutionary War. He was buried at a church near present-day Brantford, Ontario, but in 1879 his body was stolen by a doctor and his medical students.

● 1838 - Canadian Sulpician missionary Franois Blanchet, 43, first arrived in the Oregon Territory. A native of Quebec, he spent 45 years planting churches in the American Northwest, and is remembered today as the "Apostle of Oregon."

● 1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the book in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection. It is one of the most controversial, least read and understood books of all time.

● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain - Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

● 1869 - Woman's Suffrage Association organized.

● 1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated, and its first president named: Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.

● 1874 - U.S. patent granted for barbed wire, perhaps the single most destructive development in the despoiling of western North America.

● 1874 - Birth of Frederick Libby, founder of National Council for the Prevention of War.

● 1880 - In Montgomery, AL, more than 150 delegates from Baptist churches in 11 states met to form the Baptist Foreign Missions Convention of the United States. Liberian missionary William W. Colley was chief organizer, and the Rev. William H. McAlpine was elected the first president.

● 1885 - Birth of labor activist and communist Anna Louise Strong, Seattle. Served on Seattle School Board, helped organize Seattle's 1919 general strike. Died in 1969 in Beijing, China.

● 1903 - Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.

● 1904 - The first successful caterpillar track is made.

● 1919 - The Oscar Mayer Company reopens a meat-packing plant on the east side of Madison, Wisconsin. The plant had been operated by the Farmers' Cooperative Packing Company, which formed under a strongly worded state law encouraging cooperatives. Prior to the cooperative's opening two years ago, in 1917, Madison-area farmers had no choice but to sell their pigs and cattle to the Chicago beer trusts. Five thousand area farmers bought nearly $600,000 of stock in the new enterprise. The nation had only two other farm-owned cooperative packing plants, both in Wisconsin. But faced with mounting wages and operating losses, and no real prospect of new capital, the cooperative was forced to sell the plant to the Chicago firm, Oscar F. Mayer & Brother.

● 1920 - Last 33 conscientious objectors to World War I released from U.S. prisons.

● 1922 - Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

● 1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.

● 1941 - World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.

● 1941 - American Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his "Secular Journal": 'Spiritual dryness is an acute experience of longing therefore of love.'

● 1941 - Nazis establish Jewish ghetto at Thereseinstadt.

● 1943 - Max Baginski dies, New York. Social Democrat turned anarchist, condemned in 1891 to 2 1/2 years in German prison for "violation of the press laws." Exiled to the U.S., became publicity agent for Emma Goldman's newspaper, "Mother Earth," as well as many other papers.

● 1944 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east was made by 88 land-based American aircraft.

● 1947 - Red Scare: After refusing to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, the United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10. Chairman J. Parnell gets convicted in 1949 for "padding" his payrolls and pocketing the money.

● 1947 - John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" was published for the first time.

● 1962 - The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

● 1963 - Millions of TV watchers see Jack Ruby, the operator of a local striptease club, stick a revolver into Lee Harvey Oswald's side, and shoot him dead. First live TV killing.

● 1963 - Pres. Johnson, in office only two days, signs national security memorandum stating U.S. goal in Vietnam is helping the Saigon government to a military victory. In the last week of November 1963, Kennedy had planned (before his assassination) to withdraw 1000 of the 17,000 U.S. "advisors" in Vietnam, quietly open a dialogue with Castro's Cuba, and pursue detente with the U.S.S.R.

● 1965 - Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he goes on to rule the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.

● 1966 - The single smoggiest day on record in New York City's history. Four hundred die of respiratory failures and heart attacks in the killer smog.

● 1969 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.

● 1969 - Lt. William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai, Vietnam, in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial.

● 1970 - Fourteen American students meet with Vietnamese in Hanoi to plan "Peoples' Peace Treaty."

● 1971 - A passenger registered as "D.B. Cooper" hijacks a plane from Portland, Ore. to Seattle, demands and gets $200,000 in cash, a parachute, and a trip back to Portland, and then jumps out of the plane en route (somewhere over southwestern Washington) with the ransom. Never found. Cooper, or the myth of him, became an instant folk hero.

● 1972 - U.S. Circuit Court rules that a Bureau of Indian Affairs 99-year lease of Tesuque Pueblo land to a housing developer outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, violates federal law.

● 1974 - Six charged over Birmingham pub bombs; Police charge six men in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings three days ago.

● 1976 - The Band gives its last public performance, documented by Martin Scorsese in the film The Last Waltz.

● 1979 - U.S. admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange.

● 1983 - The Palestine Liberation Organization released six Israeli prisoners in exchange for the release of 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese held by the Israelis.

● 1985 - The hijacking of an Egyptair jetliner parked on the ground in Malta ended with 60 deaths when Egyptian commandos stormed the plane; two of the dead were shot by the hijackers.

● 1985 - A group of African American community activists seize and occupy the unused Colman School in Seattle's Central District, demanding the city use the property for an African American History & Heritage Museum. The occupation would last some 13 years before the original group of protesters is evicted and the city gives the property to a competing, more mainstream group, the Urban League, which pledges to use the school for a museum and for their new offices.

● 1986 - Fifteen activists, including renowned anti-war protester Abbie Hoffman, are arrested for occupying a Univ. of Massachusetts building as part of a protest against CIA recruitment on campus. Following a trial detailing CIA crimes, all were acquitted of charges. Amherst, Mass.

● 1987 - The U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap short- and medium-range missiles. It was the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons.

● 1989 - Czechoslovakia's hard-line party leadership resigned after more than a week of protests against its policies making way for democratic changes.

● 1991 - Rock singer Freddie Mercury of Queen died at age 45 of pneumonia brought on by AIDS, just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive. Indiscriminate sex with parties of both sexes did not help.

● 2003 - A jury in Virginia Beach, Va., sentenced John Allen Muhammad to death for the Washington-area sniper shootings.

● 2005 - The Licensing Act 2003 comes into force in England and Wales, introducing flexibility in the hours during which alcoholic beverages may be sold. Many pubs now open 24 hours featuring round-the-clock drinking.

● 2005 - Conservative leader Stephen Harper, the leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament, introduced a motion of no confidence, which NDP leader Jack Layton seconded. The motion was passed on November 28 which led to the dissolution to the 38th Canadian Parliament.

BIRTHS

● 1273 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)

● Roman Catholic● St. Colman of Cloyne● St. Andrew Dun-Lac, martyr of Vietnam● St. Chrysogonus● St. Alexander● St. Anthony Nam-Quynh● St. Bieuzy● St. Crescentian● St. Eanfleda● St. Firmina● St. Flora & Mary● St. Felicissimus● St. Leopardinus● St. Marinus● St. Romanus of Le Mans● Martyrs of the Dominican Order in Vietnam● Martyrs of Vietnam:● St. Peter Domoulin Bori● St. Peter Khoa● and St. Vincent Diem● Bl. Thaddeus Lieu● Bl. Lawrence PeMan

● Old Roman Catholic:● Commemoration of St John of the Cross, confessor/doctor

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 11 (Civil Date: November 24)● Martyrs Menas of Egypt, Victor at Damascus, and Vincent of Spain● St. Theodore the confessor, abbot of the Studion● Martyr Stephanida (Stephanis) of Spain.● Repose of Blessed Maximus of Moscow.● Repose of St. Stephen Dechani of Serbia.● St. Martyrius, abbot of Zelensk (Pskov).● St. Militsa, Princess of Serbia.● St. Martin the Merciful, Bishop of Tours.

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